Thursday, 23 February 2017

Ballads of War 1x09

We now need something to actually happen! Still more people coming in, but the plot begins to move towards some point.

So we got all the field team, we just need to meet the pilot of the ship and the navigator (I left that character for another page, to avoid too much fuss; I think you still have a lot of people right now to get acquainted with).

I guess the thing that will raise some eyebrows here is the design of the Adeptus Arbites. I owe an explanation. At that time I was toying with different colours for the Arbitrator minis and trying to give them a more classic Police-like appearance. Hence the blue and white. I eventually abandoned that idea and later on I painted all my Arbites in black (if you fancy having a look, here they are). Now I see these and I chuckle, but it looks like I thought it was a good idea back in the day. You can see I also redesigned the helmet. The classic Arbites helmet is iconic indeed, but didn't look quite functional to me, so I made up these mirror goggled helmets (you'll get the chance to see them better soon). Well, I don't think too much of it. It was an art decision that was made and that's all.

The vehicle you see there is in fact the one I built for my Arbites :D

In its original blue/white colours

Of course this being but a puny attempt of doing something in this fashion: